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70,000 PERSONS SEE POPE PIUS X, CROWNED; Magnificent Ceremony in the Basilica of St. Peter. THE PEOPLE ENTHUSIASTIC Acclaim the New Pontiff in Spite of Notices Forbidding Applause -- Cardinal Macchi Places the Triple Crown on His Holiness's Head.

ROME, Aug. 9 -- The ceremony of the coronation of Pope Pius X. took place to-day in the Basilica of St. Peter in the presence of the Princes and high dignitaries of the Church, the diplomats, and the Roman nobles, and with all the solemnity and splendor associated with this the most magnificent rite of the Roman Catholic Church.

August 10, 1903

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